AgraQuest Inc. Hires Former Syngenta Executive to Head Global Marketing and Product Development Team

DAVIS, CA--(Marketwire - April 30, 2008) - AgraQuest, Inc., a leading provider of effective
and safe pest management products, today announced that Ashish Malik has
been hired as the Senior VP of Global Marketing. Malik joins the AgraQuest
executive management team and will begin his new duties effective
immediately.

Malik will oversee product development, regulatory and marketing functions
for AgraQuest, focusing his efforts on creating and implementing efficient
and effective strategies that bring value to its customers and builds brand
portfolio value. This includes identifying and resourcing projects that
have a strong fit in the market and high probability of success.

"AgraQuest is an exciting company," said Malik. "Fundamentally based in
science, AgraQuest is an industry leader in developing effective products
inspired by nature. As a unique and rapidly growing innovator within the
industry, the opportunity to join AgraQuest was very enticing."

Malik comes to AgraQuest from Syngenta where he served as the Head of
Commercial Operations for the home care division and the General Manager of
the Professional Pest Management business unit. Prior to Syngenta, Malik
worked for Imerys, where he was a Business Unit Director, and for
BFGoodrich, where he served as a Market Manager.

"The addition of Ashish to the AgraQuest team solidifies our commitment to
long-term success in the global agriculture market," said Mike Miille,
CEO/COO for AgraQuest. "His proven ability to strategically grow business
through successful new product development and effective brand management
gives AgraQuest a strong foundation for us to build world-class marketing
capabilities."

AgraQuest, known for its fungicides SERENADE®, SONATA®, and
RHAPSODY®, recently launched its first bio-insecticide, BARITONE™.
AgraQuest's broad pipeline of new products includes an insecticide with
activity against sucking pests scheduled to launch by year's end, pending
EPA approval.

Malik will be based out of AgraQuest's company headquarters in Davis,
California.

About AgraQuest, Inc.

AgraQuest is a biotechnology company that focuses on discovering,
developing, manufacturing and marketing effective, safe and environmentally
friendly natural pest management products for agricultural, institutional
and home markets. The company sells SERENADE®, SERENADE® Garden,
RHAPSODY®, SONATA® and BALLAD® fungicides and BARITONE™
insecticide in the U.S. market and around the world. AgraQuest received the
Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the U.S. EPA for the discovery and
commercialization of SERENADE. In 2004, AgraQuest received a Red Herring
Top 100 Private Company Award and the World Technology Award for the
Environment.